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12 26 2023 The Final Crisis · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Tuesday, December twenty six, twenty twenty three. Hello, my
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  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and today is
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  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series for this final week.
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  God's mission, my mission, and our caption for today is the Final
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  Crisis. The Final Crisis. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com join our online community there. Also, let
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  us know where you are in the world, and please, by all means
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  pick up the your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This
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  is a way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  giving us this day and our daily bread. Please teach us to look forward
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  to the day when you will finally end this crazy race of between the conflict
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  between you and the enemy, and finally we will have love pulse through the
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  universe. Please make us holy in the meantime, in Jesus name, I
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  pray, Amen and damen again the Final Crisis. I remember there was a
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  book by mister Chai, Fernando Fernando Chai when I was growing up. I
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  remember that book, and then eventually I met him because I worked in the
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  university setting with his wife, Selma Selma Chai, and it was an honor
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  to to meet them. Because this book, Preparation for the Final Crisis,
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  was a compilation of Bible teachings and quotes from inspiration that did exactly what the
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  book titled says, like prepare us for the Final Crisis. It wasn't this
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  frightening sort of book, but it did show that there are judgments that will
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  take place. It did show that there was a way for people to be
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  holy in preparation for that final final push before Jesus comes. And it's going
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  to be difficult, no question. The time of Jacob's trouble is not going
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  to be a joke. But one day, finally, finally, sin and
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  sinners will be no more, and so we'd have to be prepared for the
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  final moments, the final crisis as Jesus's own on his way. Now,
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  let's focus right here, focus our attention just for a moment on the fact
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  that Jesus gave his life for us. Okay, let me say it another
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  way. Jesus died, he gave his life for you. He gave his
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  life for you, brothers and sisters, He gave his life for you.
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  I want you to focus on that. I want you to dwell on that,
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  like he gave himself for you. Personally, there is nothing that you
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  could have done that is so dark and so wicked that Jesus's sacrifice cannot resolve
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  if you submit your will to him, isn't that wonderful? And so when
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  you go out with this mission, this message to people that you know or
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  people that God just gives you an encounter with now you can be fully convinced
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  and in your own spirit, because you know what it's like to be loved
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  to the degree that finally, finally, somebody is willing to see who I
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  am, still love me, and then transform me, give me a new
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  mind. God said that he will take out from us the stony heart and
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  put in us a heart of flesh. And so it can be your testimony
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  now that since Jesus died for us, I am now personalizing has died for
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  me and is transforming me from a hopeless sinner into a hopeful and holy sing
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  I know that he can do it for you. He's done it for me,
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  and this is my testimony he can do it for you. And so
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  dwell on that every day of your life, and give thanks, Give thanks
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  as you prepare for the final crisis. Give thanks now, Jesus said to
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  his disciples and to us, go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
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  baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
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  teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded on you. And
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  you know what's really cool about this, brothers and sisters, he didn't just
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  give us instructions. Now he says, I will be with you, and
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  lo give keen attention to look. I am with you always, even until
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  the end of the earth and to the end of this age. A men,
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  this is the Great Commission, and in many ways the three angels messages
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  that we barely even scratch the surface of yesterday. With a call to every
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  nation and tribe and tongue and people, is simply the truth for our day,
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  the present truth, the expression of the Great Commission. Go out,
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  teach people who Jesus is and about his transformative love and power. And the
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  fact is, right before Jesus comes, it will become difficult. But once
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  that difficulty passes, those individuals who are completely committed to God will finally get
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  to a point where we don't have to contend with sin or sinners anymore,
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  and it'll be one pulse of love throughout the entire universe. I'm gonna say
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  that often so that we can get it into our minds now. In the
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  Book of First John, the Book of First John, chapter four, and
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  the Bible reads here in verse eight it says he that loveth not knoweth not
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  God, for God is Love. So those who are in romantic relationships.
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  You're trying to decide whether you should get married or not. But one or
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  the other person is abusing you, showing selfish tendencies, not preferring you above
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  his or herself. That is not love, That is not godly. Run
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  like, run away quickly, get away quickly, because you don't want to
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  be married to someone in that kind of mindset. Right. And I could
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  talk about so many other things, But the Bible reads here in verse nine,
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  and this was manifested the love of God to war us. How did
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  we see love? Like? How do we know the love of God?
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  Because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live
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  through him. Wait a minute, let's see if there's anything else. Verse
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  ten. Herein is love, not that we loved God. See, God
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  wasn't waiting for us to love him. He wasn't saying, well show me,
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  show me your love and then I'll bless you. No. It says
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  here not that not that I lost my place here in his love, not
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  that we loved him verse ten, but that he loved us and sent his
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  son to be a propitiation for our sins. That means that he was the
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  sacrifice He was the substitute. He was a manifestation of mercy, the mercy
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  seat. He was a propitiation for our sins. Beloved. If God so
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  loved us, we ought also to love one another. As we prepare for
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  the final crisis. Love must be the overarching principle of our lives. Love
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  for God, God, love for humans. We love God so much that
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  because of his love in our lives, He is the cause of our love.
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  We love him because he first loved us. Now we see the manifestation
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  of that love, because we are able to keep his commandments. He is
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  keeping his promise in us that He can keep his commandments in our lives,
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  including one and two, and three, and four and five, all the
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  way down to the tenth. Not just one of them, but all ten
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  of them. God is able to keep in our lives. And it shows
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  as a manifestation also in how we treat our neighbor. And we've covered already
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  that our neighbor or other humans are anybody who needs God, anybody who needs
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  God. That is a manifestation of his love in our hearts and in now.
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  In the Book of Second Peter, The Book of Second Peter, Chapter
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  three, verse and verse nine. We read the Lord is not slack concerning
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  as promise as some men count slackness. But it's long suffering to us word
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  not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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  But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night,
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  and the witch that the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
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  the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that
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  are therein shall be burned up. What kinds of people should we be?
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  We talked about that the other day. Seeing that this is the reality,
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  as we prepare for the final crisis, we need to know that Jesus is
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  coming soon and finally, finally we'll be able to say, Lo, this
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  is our God. We've waited for him, and he is now here to
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  save us. Let's prepare with holiness as we look forward to the coming.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,